DataCore develops new iterations for Swarm

DataCore, a leader in storage management during the last 2 decades, shared its roadmap for Swarm 16, its object storage software coming from the Caringo acquisition effective since early 2021.

The main direction is the iteration with small configurations, less than 100TB, and single containerization instance deployment, managed by Kubernetes, aligned with ROBO and edge needs. It means that Swarm will be able to be deployed with classic clusters, Kubernetes clusters and federation of independent instances and globally be connected together.

The second new key feature will be object services as a local or in-place data processing capabilities as containers also orchestrated by Kubernetes, it represents an important way to leverage core, edge and data center deployment models and address data gravity.

Also the S3 object lock continues to be validated with several backup product, the v16 is certified by Veritas NetBackup. And we'll see how and which AI functions will be added to Swarm for future editions.

At the same time, I have to mention that the company also acquired Object Matrix, a reference in object storage for Media & Entertainment.

The effect of the DataCore strong offering and ambitious strategy is visible with the recent Coldago Map 2023 for Object Storage, with a leader position. The report is available from this page.